Improvement in clothes-pounders



- W. H. CASTLE.-

Clothes-'Pullman .Non 63,739., Patented Maly 25, i875.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. CASTLE, OF GENEVA, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO R.O. ROTE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-POUNDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,739, dated May 25,1875; application filed September 7, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. H. CAsTLE, of Geneva., in the county ofAshtabula and State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements -inGlothesPounders, of which the followingis a specieation:

Figure l is a side View of my improved clothes-pounder with its jaws intheir normal position, and Fig. 2 is a corresponding view of the samewith its jaws converging toward each other, which position they occupywhen brought in contact with the articles to be pounded.

Like parts in the several figures are designated by like letters.

This invention relates to a certain improve ment in clothes-pounders;and it consists of jaws so attached to a staff or handle as to have aconverging motion, by which they are caused to pound the clothes orother articles, and at the same time squeeze them, substantially ashereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawing, O O refer to two jaws, fulcrumed at or abouttheir center by means of pins D D to the extremities of the horizontalplate or slide B, and pivoted at their upper ends to links E E, pivotedto a horizontal piece or bar, G, rigidly secured to the handle or staffA. The stati' or handle A,

which passes down through an orice in the plate or slide B, is providedat its lower end with a cross-head or cylinder, F, upon which the plateor slide B, provided on its lower side with a eoncavity, seats itself,as shown in Fig.

1, when the jaws O C stand in their normal position, and against thelower side of which bea-r the inner curved surfaces of the jaws O C whenthe latter occupy the position indicated in Fig. 2, or are in the act ofpounding and squeezing the clothes, 85e. A spring, H, coiled around thestaff A, and pressing upon the plate or slide B, throws the jaws apartafter the removal of downward pressure from the same.

It will be observed that, as the yielding jaws strike the clothes, theirupper ends are forced outwardly by the inclined links, giving an obliquemotion to the lower ends ofthe jaws, whereby the clothes aresimultaneously pounded and squeezed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A clothes-pounder havin g j aws fulcrumed to a slide on its handle,and linked or jointed at their upper ends to the latter, whereby theirlower ends are caused to similtaneously pound and squeeze the clothes asthey strike the same, substantially as shown and described.

2. The handle A, with its lower end provided with a cross-head, F, incombination with the jaws O O, slide B, and links E, with or without thespring H, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

W". H. CASTLE. Witnesses R. O. ROTE, W. D. WEsTeoTT.

